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Definition of Chiefries
1. chiefry [n] - See also: chiefry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiefries
Literary usage of Chiefries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ireland Under the Tudors: With a Succinct Account of the Earlier History by Richard Bagwell (1885)
"... was perhaps formally acknowledged at a verv remote period, but was unknown as
a rule of succession to Irish chiefries in tlie ages with which sion. this ..."
2. Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First by Edmund Spenser, John Davies, Fynes Moryson, Henry Morley (1890)
"If they have an estate of inheritance their lands ought to descend to a certain
heir; but neither their chiefries nor their tenancies did ever descend to a ..."
3. The Personal Government of Charles I.: A History of England from the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1877)
"... and do now pay unto them either public 1 35- or private chiefries. There is
not any one thing permitted by the State which draws with it a more ..."
4. The Home and Foreign Review (1863)
"And these chiefries, though they had some portions of land allotted unto them,
did consist chiefly in cuttings and ..."
5. Ireland in the Seventeenth Century: Or, The Irish Massacres of 1641-2, Their by Mary [Agnes] Hickson (1884)
"10\d., and the country is discharged of the rents and chiefries granted to Sir
Richard Master- son and Synnot, which are 2101. per annum. ..."
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